After watching yet another Food Channel tv show wax nostalgic about the myriad hot dog varieties enjoyed all across America, and seeing LA’s venerable Pink’s featured, I decided (ok, my stomach decided) that it was...

overhead television sets showing four different programs simultaneously and thus creating an annoying drone; a dingy, old dining room draped with depressing Christmas tree lights in March; and bland, chewy, horrible sushi. I ate...

We’re invited to a wedding for a business associate of my husband. They are young, VERY rich, very LA (she’s in television, he’s a multimillionaire at 40)...we’re not going to get them a toaster. We were...

, and the prices are a real bargain. And where else can you watch a Polish soccer game on tv while you eat?

RST, I, not unlike a parrot, was simply repeating what Steve Dolinsky said in the closing moments of this week’s Good Eating television show on CLTV. Regards, Gary Link:...

At the moment my biggest disaster was shattering my cooktop on New Year’s Eve. It has just been one of those years. A slight tap and the whole thing shattered and looks like a broken TV screen. It was glass fatigue after 16...

trying to implement their vision. If 54% of customer respondents deem the quesadillas too spicy, boom, down goes the spice. This is one (big) reason why chains suck. And tv shows suck. And hollywood movies. Etc, etc. Soul and...

showed us this lovely room where we could do a dinner for 18-20. I have to say that the room is so nice and anyone looking for a private room for a special day should consider it. We did decide to do the party there as I think it...

. There are lots of great things to see and experience. The area needs people to go, hang out, show resilency and resume normalcy. Start at the South Street Seaport, then make your way down to Battery Park. Then take the plunge,...

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-goosey glop. I baked it in a loaf pan, covered with aluminum foil for the 1st half-hour, uncovered for the next half-hour. A friend alerted me to Martha Stewart’s TV program on Thursday, 18Jan07 which had a demonstration of...

a rabbit out of his hat-just to show how clever he is. ;0) I said “occasionally”.) *We tried to pin down and define “Chicago southside style”. A few of the elements that determine a southside style that we...

My fridge is running seriously empty, with only some eggs and edamame to show from my last visit to the farmer’s market. So I boiled the soy beans, sprinkled with salt, and popped those nutty-sweet darlings as an appetizer....

often anymore... I think peanut butter will show up frequently in most people’s lists of funky food combinations.

Some years ago, a friend invited my sister and me over for dinner. Imagine our surprise, in these times of creative cooking, to be served a tuna-noodle-cream of mushroom soup casserole, baked with potato chips on top. She must...